The document discusses ethical frameworks for the metaverse, highlighting Parisi's seven rules that define its characteristics, such as being inclusive and open. It also emphasizes the importance of mental privacy rights and neuro-rights in the context of XR technologies, arguing that biometric data is often inadequately protected by current laws. The text calls for ethical design principles and the need for new privacy regulations that address the complexities of user data in XR environments.

1. Sensemaking Frameworks
For Metaverse Ethics
@KentBye

4. Parisi’s Seven Rules of the Metaverse
1. There is Only One Metaverse.
2. The Metaverse is for Everyone.
3. Nobody Controls the Metaverse.
4. The Metaverse is Open.
5. The Metaverse is Hardware-Independent.
6. The Metaverse is a Network.
7. The Metaverse is the Internet.
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6. Lessig, Lawrence, Code 2.0, Chapter: What Things Regulate (available in
print: Lawrence Lessig (2006). Code. Lawrence Lessig. pp. 120–137. ISBN
978-0-465-03914-2.
Lessig’s Pathetic
Dot Theory
Nested
Contexts
vs
Market
Law
Cultural
Norms
Technology
Architecture
& Code
User

7. Culture

8. Laws
Culture

9. Economy
Laws
Culture

10. Economy
Laws
Culture
Design
Guidelines

11. User
Experience
Economy
Laws
Culture
Design
Guidelines

12. App Code
User
Experience
Economy
Laws
Culture
Design
Guidelines

13. OS Code
App Code
User
Experience
Economy
Laws
Culture
Design
Guidelines

14. OS Code
App Code
User
Experience
Economy
Laws
Culture
Design
Guidelines
Hardware
& Tech
Architecture

15. OS Code
App Code
User
Experience
Economy
Laws
Culture
Design
Guidelines
Hardware
& Tech
Architecture

16. Human
Rights
Principles
Governments
& Laws
XR Companies
XR Hardware
& OS
Ethical
Design
Principles
XR
Experiences
Users

17. How do we preserve the Right
to Mental Privacy in XR?
Biometrically-inferred psychographic data from
XR is not covered by existing privacy laws.
Some biometric user data will be contextually-
relevant & required for some XR apps to
function, which users should be able to consent
to sharing within the context of those apps.
Companies require users to consent to their
Terms of Service & Privacy Policies, which do
not prevent them them from recording &
monetizing user data, extrapolating biometric
psychographic information, or using it for
contextually-aware AI, but they have limited
what third party developers can do with that
same data.
Human Rights
Principles
International Organizations
International Laws &
Human Rights Laws
UN Guiding
Principles on
Business &
Human Rights
Neuro-Rights
Initiative
Right to
Mental
Privacy
XR
Hardware +
Operating
System
Ethical
Design
Principles?
XR User’s Context & Data
Third-Party
XR Developers
XR Experiences
that Require User
Data to Operate
US Government
Lobbyists
European
Union
GDPR
XR Companies
State
Laws
Federal
Laws
Oversight & Enforcement
New
Federal
Privacy
Law?
Monetizing
User Data &
Biometric
Psychography?
Contextually
-Aware AI?
Terms of
Service
Privacy
Policy
App
Store
Developer
Terms of
Service

18. Human
Rights
Principles
Governments
& Laws
XR Companies
XR Hardware
& OS
Ethical
Design
Principles
XR
Experiences
Users

19. (1) The right to identity, or the ability to
control both one’s physical and mental
integrity
(2) The right to agency, or the freedom of
thought and free will to choose one’s own
actions
(3) The right to mental privacy, or the
ability to keep thoughts protected against
disclosure
(4) The right to fair access to mental
augmentation, or the ability to ensure that
the benefits of improvements to sensory and
mental capacity through neurotechnology
are distributed justly in the population.
(5) The right to protection from
algorithmic bias, or the ability to ensure
that technologies do not insert prejudices.
Proposed Neuro-Rights
Yuste, R.,Genser, J. & Herrmann, S. "It's Time for Neuro-Rights." Horizons: Journal of International Relations and
Sustainable Development, no. 18, 2021. pp 154-164. JSTOR,
https://www.cirsd.org/en/horizons/horizons-winter-2021-issue-no-18/its-time-for-neuro--rights. Accessed 31 Mar. 2021.

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21. XR Ethics Manifesto
@KentBye

25. ThingLink. (n.d.). Universal Declaration of Human Rights by TERMCAT.ThingLink.
https://www.thinglink.com/scene/885518633164341250.
FDR Presidential Library & Museum. (1949, November). Eleanor Roosevelt
holding poster of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (in English), Lake
Success, NewYork. November 1949. Flickr.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fdrlibrary/27758131387/.

26. United Nations. (2015, December 30). Sustainable Development Goals kick off with start of new year – United Nations Sustainable Development. United Nations.
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27. Stewart, M. (2021, June 17). Breadth & depth: Why I'm optimistic about Facebook's Responsible Innovation efforts.
Facebook Technology. https://tech.fb.com/responsible-innovation/.

28. Ann Diller, Barbara Houston, Kathryn Pauly Morgan, and Maryann Ayim, The Gender Question in Education: Theory, Pedagogy, and Politics, Figure 8.1 (p. 107).
Intersecting Axes of Privilege, Domination, & Oppression

29. Wardley Mapping: Pioneers vs Settlers vs Town Planners
Wardley, Simon (2015). https://medium.com/wardleymaps/better-for-less-58fe8c0a3aaa

30. Wardley Mapping: 3D Production Pipeline
Wardley, Simon (2015). https://medium.com/wardleymaps/exploring-the-map-ad0266fad59b

31. Human
Rights
Principles
Governments
& Laws
XR Companies
XR Hardware
& OS
Ethical
Design
Principles
XR
Experiences
Users